Autism and the Empathy Epidemic

by Janet Harbord

Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship and disability studies as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characterised predominantly by a deficit of empathy, arguing that the reverse is true: we are living through an empathy epidemic in which autism is the outcast.

In 1908, the British psychologist, Edward Titchener, translated the German term...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350345067
• ISBN13: 9781350345065
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"